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Boiseans: Submit Your Favorite Idaho Museum Exhibit

Two nuclear weapons at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in New Mexico have made Boing Boing's list of unique finds from small museums across the country.

After Maggie Koerth-Baker from the blog Boing Boing picked up a story on a mummified Ice-Age bison preserved and quietly displayed in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, she posited that the country was full of unique finds like this. She writes:

This is really cool, and it gives me an idea: There are lots of relatively small, locally oriented museums all over the country, harboring neat finds like this. Unlike places like the Smithsonian or New York's American Museum of Natural History, these museums don't draw in huge crowds of tourists from faraway cities, so most of us don't even know about the treasures stored there—let alone ever get to see them.